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Don DeLillo's Short Stories

Earlier this week, The Millions reported that Don Delillo would be releasing his first ever collection of short stories this November, The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories. The stories are drawn from the years 1979-2011; many of them first appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, and Harper's. (You can see a full list of Delillo's short fiction here.)

The story was accompanied by PEN Q&A with DeLillo, in which he talks about Bellow, American fiction, technology, the role of the writer, and more. You can read the opening of "Human Moments in World War III" here; the Q&A is here.

The Journal

PEN America brings together conversations between the world's great writers with new and overlooked fiction, poetry, drama, memoir, and commentary. It was named one of the "Ten Best New Magazines" in 2000 by Library Journal and recent work has been selected for inclusion in Best American Essays, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Harper's Magazine, and The Utne Reader. Past contributors include Paul Auster, Marilynne Robinson, Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag, John Edgar Wideman, and many others. Our latest issue is PEN America 14: The Good Books. The journal is published twice a year by PEN American Center.